BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)

All his life, James has been searching for the best ways to change himself and change the world. He started as an entrepreneur at age 6 and since has co-founded or helped build 9 businesses and 16 organizations, including the premier conference for the effective altruism movement, the world’s first global lifehacking event series, Southeast Asia’s first social innovation hackathon series, and a university for today’s Leonardo da Vincis. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin as a triple major/quadruple minor. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/james-norris You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/james-norris

Bernadette is the General Manager at Entrepreneur First (EF) Singapore, the world’s leading talent investor, helping the most impactful people build startups from scratch. Before EF, Bernadette served as the Chief of Staff at Funding Societies and at Grab. She started her career in Australia at the Boston Consulting Group, before moving to Singapore with Linkedin to lead Product Marketing. Bernadette was also the State Director for Australia’s largest youth-run non-profit, where she worked with volunteers under age 25 to fundraise for development projects across APAC. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/bernadette-cho You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/bernadette-cho

Ilya Kravtsov is an experienced professional within the mobile/internet space with more than 15 years of experience split between TMT Management Consulting, Telecoms and IT Startups  He was formerly Founder and CEO of PouchNATION, a Singapore based tech company specialised in guest management solutions.Ilya is currently a Mentor at Plug and Play Accelerator Indonesia, Advisor at Antler whilst remaining a BOD member and Advisor to PouchNATION  Previously, Ilya worked as Head of Commercial Strategy for XL-Axiata, 2 Bln USD in revenue Telecom operator and as a Management Consultant for Delta Partners, a leading advisory firm in emerging markets focusing on TMD (Telecoms-Media-Digital) industry. Other experiences include: advising several Venture Capital funds in South East Asia (Ruvento, InvestIdea) and a stint at General Electric.  Ilya holds 2 Master of Science Degrees in International Management (Rotterdam School of Management – CEMS and Bocconi University) and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics (Bocconi University).  Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/ilya-kravtsov You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/ilya-kravtsov

Hon Weng Chong is the founder and CEO of Cortical Labs, a Deep Technology startup looking to fuse biological material with computing chips resulting in a proto-AGI device. Previously he was the founder and CTO of CliniCloud; a medtech startup that built full-stack connected medical devices that was backed by Tencent and Ping An ventures. Hon Weng trained as a medical doctor at The University of Melbourne and was exposed to the world of technology entrepreneurialism during his research year at Johns Hopkins. In addition to being a medical doctor, Hon Weng is a full-stack software engineer and a machine learning enthusiast. Hon Weng is a Forbes 30 under 30 recipient in 2018. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/hon-weng-chong You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/hon-weng-chong

David Thian is a former management consultant who helped to start Conjunct Consulting in 2011. Today, he is one of 300 Administrative Officers transforming and building capabilities in the Singapore Public Service. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/david-thian You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/david-thian

Jeep Kline is a Partner of MrPink VC, an impact venture fund targeting South American entrepreneurs. She recently founded SeaSky Lab, a project that bridges knowledge and resources from Silicon Valley to Asia for tech entrepreneurs. An advisor to several incubation programs, she is UC Berkeley Skydeck’s lead ambassador to 48 countries in the Asia-Pacific region. She is also a guest lecturer in the Sustainable and Impact Finance Group at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. She has professional experience working with a number of international organizations. At the World Bank, she implemented technology projects in South America, Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe. Later, she joined Intel Corp., where she created the company’s first Android tablet for emerging economies. She is a Board Member of the Intel Alumni Network. She also holds an MBA from the UC Berkeley and an MA in Economics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. A native of Bangkok, Thailand, she graduated with First Class Honours from Chulalongkorn University. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/jeep-kline You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/jeep-kline

Fandy Santoso is Co-founder and CEO of Giladiskon, a social buying club where 2m Indonesian members get exclusive discounts at restaurants and lifestyle retailers. Besides helping their members saving money every day, they also help retailers to get instant exposure to millions of millenials through social media. Fandy started his entrepreneurial journey in 2013 when he started an IT consulting business and have established several other companies since. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/fandy-santoso You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/fandy-santoso

Michael Lints has over 20 years of experience helping innovative businesses obtain the resources, insights, and expertise they need in order to be successful. Michael has been a startup operator, investor, and mentor, and is currently a Partner at the Singapore-based venture capital firm Golden Gate Ventures. He joined the firm in 2013 and is currently leading growth venture efforts, which include LP fundraising and portfolio management for Golden Gate Venture's investments at Series B and beyond.  Michael’s entrepreneurial journey began in 2000 when he co-founded an IT managed services startup in Europe that was acquired by a large data and telecom company six years later. In 2007, Michael founded a venture fund focused on Dutch small- and medium-sized enterprises to help them with capital financing, business development, and strategy. During the same period, he was invited to join the Economic Development Board Rotterdam as Vice Chairman. In that role, he launched the Young Economic Development Board where he brought together a highly influential Dutch network to develop a sustainable framework for public-private relationships that increased local business investment while leveraging the public infrastructure.  Outside of work, sport is an essential part of Michael’s life. He is a former member of the Dutch karate team and the former ambassador for Treknology (Trek bikes distributor in Singapore). Michael actively participates in Ironman 70.3 races and marathons. He is also passionate about social justice and uses sport as a vehicle to raise awareness for important issues such as civil rights, economic opportunity, and education. Besides sport, Michael is an active writer and writes articles regarding life, balance, and venture capital on michaellints.com. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/michael-lints You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/michael-lints

As the Global Head of Circularity at SecondMuse, Simon leads programs focused on strengthening circular and regenerative economic systems and processes. This work currently includes The Incubation Network in South and Southeast Asia, and the Ocean Plastic Pollution Accelerator (OPPA) in Indonesia, both of which are built around addressing ocean plastic pollution. Simon is a systems architect, researcher, and entrepreneur who is committed to foregrounding communities in developing solutions that tackle today's most complex and pressing social and environmental challenges. His experience extends through the private, government, non-government and UN sectors in more than a dozen countries. His insights and research has been published widely and across multiple platforms. Simon lives in Singapore with his wife and two children. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/simon-baldwin You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/simon-baldwin

Projjal Ghatak is the CEO & Co-Founder of OnLoop, a pre-launch VC-backed seed stage SaaS start-up in a new category called Collaborative Team Development (CTD) to reinvent how individuals and teams of knowledge workers develop in a new hybrid future. Prior to founding OnLoop in 2020, Projjal spent three and a half years at Uber in a variety of roles including leading Strategy for Business Development globally, leading Strategy for the APAC rides business, and GM of the Philippines rides business. A lot of his personal pain as a leader in high-growth, high-functioning orgs led to the founding of OnLoop. Projjal has also spent time in finance raising debt and equity from New York hedge funds for an industrials conglomerate, in strategy consulting in South East Asia, and in early stage companies in Latin America. He has an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, and a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems and a Bachelor of Business Management from the Singapore Management University. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/projjal -ghatak You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/projjal-ghatak